laffite
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You might also consider In a Lonely Place, one of the few roles where she is actually the lead (alongside Bogie). Many of her roles are supporting or character roles. Not to say she is not fun to watch in the shorter appearances, the thing about Gloria is that she carries a certain impact (think: Crossfire ) though she might not have a lot of onscreen time. Hopefully some of the more advance Gloriaphiles around here will confirm that (or deny). OTOH, maybe this movie would be better to see later, as a main event, so to speak, in which case some of the shorter roles might be a better way to approach Gloria.
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Rio Bravo
nw; athiest
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I don't like the split-second introductory eye and then seeing all these people mesmerized, as if under some Orwellian spell. The music is so bad that luckily it doesn't even try for a climax...it's just ends. The overall is just awful, but thankfully intros are minor. It's the movies that count. I usually DVR before watching so I can handily fast forward. The intro is not too long anyway. I always admired TCM for staying with the prime time intro so long. Imagine, fourteen years! Too bad they couldn't have retained it for weekends at least.
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Brief Encounter
pumpkin
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Irma La ****
salubrious
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Little Women
chorale
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seven
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susan oliver
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The Kreutzer Sonata (1915) (w/ThedaB)
nw: crescendo
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MissG:
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I believe Elizabeth Bennett herself taught Miss Butterscotch how to use a bow**and arrow as well, so you'd better watch out!
*Forever on my guard. I think our greer here learns by osmosis. She gets better with the B&A with each viewing of the P&P.
Fatale:
*Rum? Did someone say rum? Mmmm maybe Miss Butterscotch is not the only one you have to worry about.
*Uh-oh.
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THE VAN
THE WAGES OF FEAR or DUEL
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diana dors
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gigi
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The Sun Also Rises
nw: jackanapes
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*Bon soiree, Monsieur Fence Painter!*
*(I hope Miss Butterscotch doesn't mind if Marilyn borrows her long black gloves...)*
I'm sure Miss Butterscotch won't mind. Now if we
can only get her to lend Marilyn her sword and her
fake machete (don't give them back, Marilyn!),
then maybe laffite won't have to worry about the
sword and fake machete wielder trying to steal
the pirate's rum. (Miss Butterscotch is becoming quite
adept with these accoutrements
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*"Gee, I really love these long black gloves. I wonder if Butterscotch would mind if I kept them."*
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MissG
*Yes, indeedy they are! Pretty good shooting for a pirate---I always thought pirates were better*
*at long swords than digital cameras, but I guess I was wrong.
* Well, I'm a pirate nouveau, trailblazing for a more improved and mechanized buccaneer. However, my prowess with the long sword is still quite lethal.
Fatale:
*I don't think it's that low!
*Well, uh, yeah, it could been lower
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Cast Away
nw: riddled
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Merci, chere amie, this movie was hibernating on my DVR all this time and I'm glad I took the time for it. I have hardly watched anything lately. I have to keep transferring from DVR to VHS (yes, I am still living in the Dark Ages) so that I can make more room for new stuff. I have a backlog that is getting almost to big to contemplate. I may get to them all providing I live forever. Speaking of the dark ages, those "screencaps" are TV pictures taken with a digital camera. A little fuzzy, perhaps, but viewable, n'est-ce pas? I did not DVR No More Orchids and I don't have it in my collection. I'm kicking myself for not recording more of the early Carole.
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Beowulf and Grendel (2005)
nw: dappled
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Mr and Mrs Doyle on a honeymoon, let?s see, what did they call it. The Brooklyn Ree-vee-air-uh, or was it Coney Coney.
A good time was had, right Mrs Doyle?yes Mr Doyle.Threre is a lot of movie here for just over an hour. Great economy too. There they are with Mae waiting for him to pop the question and some guy comes along and makes Joe say, we?re engaged (i.e, we?re busy), and then we cut to the them exiting the Marriage License Office. I like the way she grabs his arm, the way she fastens herself to him with that big goofy smile and un-lady like guffaw. She is so very earthy and versatile here, fun to watch. I looked up Director Edward Buzzell on imbd and don't recognize any of his titles, I don't think they have been shown on TCM, at least after a cursory glance. Virtue is so crisp and well-paced, he seems to know what he's doing.
I though Pat was good too. The regular guy cab driver who thinks he knows all about dames. Mae knows better from the get go, yeah she?s a stenographer, ha. She has a past and has been in grittier places that he. She runs circles around him as far as knowing the score about life. I like the way he plays that scene where he goes off in despair and then comes home and decides to keep her. There?s real pain in his voice. Then he paces the floor, ?Ha, Jimmy the wise guy?sure, nobody gonna tell me about dames?no, I know all about?em?when I marry it?s gonna be the Real McCoy, oh yeah?Gee, won?t the gang get a laugh when they hear?s about this.? I mean, he?s really good there. A chunk of truth about himself, most reluctantly acknowledged. He doesn?t get upstaged by Carole in this movie, he holds his own.
As someone said, we have an assortment of characters and a lot going on in just 66 minutes. I like Jack here, good show. He plays rough with one of them, then gets bossed around by another. I see from imbd that he did quite a bit of work but most of his movies seem to fall under my radar. I don?t know much about him.
A low neckline, even for pre-Code?
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HAYLEY MILLS
THE CHALK GARDEN or THE FLAMES TREES OF THICKA
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Big Night
nw bumptious
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*Guten Tag Meine Butterscotcherin!*
*oh now youre changing languages on me....confusion approaching. heehee!*
No confusion approaching. I know practically zero German. Ich habe nicht Deutch verstehen!
I won't bug you about this anymore. I thought it was on the tip of your tongue, so I tried to jog your memory. This was painted by Edward G Robinson, the painter, in Scarlet Street. Have you seen that movie?
*i have seen a few versions of peter pan...*
*a play done by a friend in middle school as Peter*
*Peter Pan (2003)*
*Peter Pan(1953)*
*Hook*
*Peter Pan (1924)*
*the 2003 version is my favorite, with the cartoon in second and the 1924 version following in 3rd, and hook last....i like Hook as a cutesie movie, but it isnt my favorite version of Peter Pan there is, although i think Maggie Smith did a smashing job as Wendy, i love Maggie.*
So you have seen the 1924 version? I have seen only a couple of scenes from that movie. They show up on a cable Arts Channel from time to time. The scene where Wendy is teaching the children to fly and the scene when Peter tries to lure Wendy to NeverNever Land at the end but mama says no.
Here is Betty Bronson as a regular girl, not Peter Pan. How about that Betty Bronson stare. She is very captivating. In fact, if Laffite could travel in time, I would go back and captivate her, and if I couldn't do that, I'd capture her
).*I thought maybe that guy pinched the waitress, like those Italians are famous for doing, although you are probably not so fond of Italians right now seeing how that Gino treated your Helen.*
*why would i not be fond of Italians? it was a movie silly goose*
*but yes, i do have something against that Gino for shaking my poor Helen!*
That's what I mean, those Italians
Just kidding, if it weren't for the Italians, we wouldn't have Rigoletto.*yeah too bad Helena didnt put a crusio curse on Gino....what am i saying? only the bad people do those spells.. .i would never do that!*
But do you think you could perpetrate a spell on someone if you were having a bad day? Even the most goodest Butterscotchin girl might conceivably get up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and then watch WAFTT and see that Gino shake that Helen just one time too many and then issue a horrific spell on Gino. Nobody's perfect you know, not even Butterscotcherins.
*by the way when you asked what Harry movie the picture is from, its from the 5th movie. she plays Bellatrix Lestrange, Lord Voldemort's most loyal and most evil death eater, and the only reason i know this is because my little brother and mother are obssessed with Harry Potter and never stop talking about it....*
I like that name, Bellatrix Lestrange (i.e., the strange). Oh, Bellatrix, we have a job for you. Just go to Monteriano and find this certain Italian named Gino
So then, are you not a Harry Potter fan, especially.
*I spiked your butterscotch candies with real rum.*
*wow! you really dont want me to trust you anymore do you? heehee! okay ill go with it......*
How about going with these? Yum!
This is a good brand. This tastes good to me, anyway. I don't like (bleah!) the store-brand butterscotch pudding, so I buy Hunt's. I like it cold so I put in the freezer for about a half hour. If you accidentally freeze, no problem, just take out and thaw, hmmm good. And they're not even spiked (unless I spike'm).
*what is in thy sweets? my body aches, im melting! heehee! i fall to the ground......kerplunk!*
Ouchy, what a kerplunk that was! Whew! It's not sweets that caused that though. That's when the doorbell rang and Butterscotch opened the door and saw Darcy in all his hunky splendor who looks into those pretty Butterscotch eyes and says, "I have finally come for you. My white horse is neighing nervously outside and would fain have away, and so we ride, you and I, off into the sunset and live happily ever after." And then you go kerplunk! But he'll pick you up and whisk you away to the Golden Times. And your mama will look for you later and say, "Now, where is that girl?", but you will be away and away with Darcy. (But you'll send your mom an email when you get to the castle).
*Now, do you think I m gonna be afraid of a fake machete.*
*well you could make me happy by pretending! heehee!*
I'm sorry, but pretending never made anyone happy. You have to deal with the real world. Otherwise you will in be thrall to your illusions, which only yield a false happiness. How's that for pirate philosophy?
*i dont carry my machete in my I Love Lucy purse silly...i carry it in my Greer Garson purse...its bigger its fits better in there, but alas, im going to have to find a new one, since someone broke into my car through the window and stole my greer purse. that was a real lulu let me tell you. i forgot to tell you i got a greer purse. sorry...i found a Guess purse that had these big G's on it everywhere in brown and green and they were two G's stuck together on top of the other and it immerged in my head, "Greer Garson, hey its my GG purse. cute!" but that's was short lived apparently. back to my i love lucy purse.*
How clever you are to find to invent a greer purse like that. Can you get another one? Only, heck, what's this about someone breaking into your car? Gosh, be careful, will ya! Can you go back to Guess and get another? Okay, lucy to the rescue, purse-wise, that is. Did you lose you fake machete too! Why did you leave your purse in your car?
*but gary and darcy are not coming to rescue you because you haven t chosen which one you like the best.*
*tattle tale! heehee! seriously, now you didnt have to go telling them i couldnt choose just yet...i dont think they believe you, who would they believe? the dirty pirate? or the girl who bats her eye lashes with a puppy dog pout? heehee!
*They would believe the dirty pirate. No one would believe a girl who bats her eye lashes with a puppy dog pout, 'cause it's obvious she's just bein' a silly little flirt. You see, sometimes we can figure you girls out.
*little jack horner*
*sat in the corner*
*eating his Christmas pie*
*he put on his thumb and pulled out a plumb*
*and said, "what a good boy am i?"*
*i hope thats right. heehee!*
Pretty close anyway. At least he wasn't eating liver and limas.
*he hated his liver and limas*
*but i gave them to him anyway*
*his livid face turned green-as*
*but thats okay*
*ill give him a spoon full of sugar*
*...and he'll be all better!*
Oh, I wish, I wish, but oh the agony!
Liver and Limas are not for me!
I'm still a-sick and fain would die
Not sugar plenty nor butterscotch pie
Can save me this rueful ache within
Though rum I might if God be willin'
*i shot some bow and arrows over the weekend, and i pretended like i was lizzy and my little brother looked at me like i was an idiot. heehee!*
Well, it's okay to pretend but you shouldn't actually say out loud after you shoot your arrows, "Your turn, Mr Darcy, hee hee."
*i surely wish i could forget some movies too.. the other day i turned on the Chiller channel thinking the alfred Hitchcock hour was on, but the movie Dr. Giggles was on instead and i had no clue what it was of course, so i watched about 5 minutes of it and i started in the wrong time of the movie. it FREAKED me out big time!!! he tied a woman to a chair and forced a tub down her throat and there was this black spinning thing in the tube and he sucked stuff up out of her stomach and then turned the spinner on and i screamed louder than you would want to hear and fell to the couch hiding my head in a pillow, and now i promptly cant get that scene out of my head! i immediately changed the channel and when momma got home i told her what i had seen and she just smiled evilly and said, "oh yeah i have seen that movie when it first came out. you wont like it." i answered. "no really! i already found that out." i shouldnt ever be surprised when momma says she has seen a freaky movie, but i am for some reason, she loves sci-fi movies. yucky! .i wish more than anything i could forget that movie,,,what movie do you wish you could forget?*
Okay, nothing but Darcy, Gary, Greer, Helen, and Ray Milland for you. All this ghastly horror sci-fi is not for you. Maybe not for me anymore either. When I was younger I saw this thing happen that was so horrible it affected me for months. In fact, I still wince when I think of it. I won't even tell you. It was a mainstream Saturday afternoon movie that kids would ordinarily watch, the title I don't even remember but whoa, that was bad!
*Re: Lucy Van Pelt*
*GASPS!!! cut her up? im scared now!*
Don't worry, I will spare you. But only because I don't want you to miss speech class.
*here comes Dr. Giggles, the pirate!!! heehee! i dont hate lucy van pelt that much. heehee! schroeder would miss her, how could you be so heartless... that just shows how much you understand schroeder and lucy's relationship. heehee!*
It's not generally known but Schroeder tried for years to get Lucy kicked off the comic strip. He said she was an insufferable fussbudget and talked too much. And one time he was practicing the Emperor Concerto and she sneaked up behind him and kissed him. How horrible is that! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! He never really got over it. I mean, who could! Now he's afraid to play that concerto anymore.
*Oh, is that what that was? I thought those were cataracts.*
*neither greer or ronald had cataracts!!! how could you?
her eyes were soooo beautiful and they shine so brightly, especially when being around darcy and smithy....couldnt you tell? smithy of course had gorgeous eyes, i could melt into his eyes in a second.*If you melted into his eyes he wouldn't be able to see. Not that it would matter since he's still trying to remember who he is.
*The Pelican*
*A wonderful bird is the pelican*
*His mouth can hold more than his belican*
*He can take in his beak*
*Enough food for a week*
*I'm damned if I know how the helican*
*when i was growing up my parents watched The Pelican Brief a lot, and i never liked that movie, it always scared me, and now every time i hear the word Pelican i think of that movie. please dont put me through that agony. heehee! i would much rather think about gary and darcy thank you.*
Pelicans are nice birds. I live on the coast and there are many here. They get caught on fish hooks and they have to be separated from the hook and they are quite calm about it when the fishermen do it for them. I haven't seen that movie but I'm wondering what is about it that would scare you. But don't tell me. The next time you hear the word pelican, think how calm they are when they get unhooked and thnik not of that movie. If I ever see this movie I'll think of you and remove by mental telepathy any scary parts. That way you can watch it next time your parents watch it.
*Buttercup was not real. She was a made up princess in that book that Peter Falk was reading to his nephew. So there*
*just because she was from a book, doesnt mean she wasnt real.....where's that active imagination of yours?*
I lost it. I was at the grocery store and it was missing so I went to Lost and Found and they said, nope, no active imaginations here, though we have a few dull imaginations. I said that won't do, I have to have an active one because I have to convince myself that Buttercup was real.
*Well, it s evident that you all have that teacher wrapped around your collective pinkies.*
*well thats the general idea. heehee!*
I'm going to email your speech teacher and tell him you said that.
BTW, have you given any speeches yet? Are you going to give a speech about Greer? I'm wonderin' if you're gonna work that in. -
The Right Stuff
flaccid
I believe Elizabeth Bennett herself taught Miss Butterscotch how to use a bow*
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In the Intro, RO did make it sound like that the version showed was the original 145m version, which was an error. It was 124 min, as the original OP stated. But we shouldn't think that we've missed anything, necessarily. The 124m version seems to be a conscientiously acceptable pared-down version. Still, it would be interesting to see that other 21 minutes, wouldn't it?